NYC opens 1st building-mounted wind turbines at Brooklyn Yard
by Terrence Dopp

Bloomberg    Translate This Article
15 April 2009

On 15 April 2009 Bloomberg reported: A $25 million building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard industrial park has New York City's first mounted wind turbines, and other energy-saving and environmentally-friendly devices. It is the first multistory structure in the US to be classified as a 'green industrial facility' by the US Green Building Council, which rates properties according to their effect on the environment. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of government, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is championing the creation of 'green' jobs for his city.

Mayor Bloomberg said, 'The Brooklyn Navy Yard has been enormously successful providing a haven for small industrial businesses that help diversify the city's economy ... it's becoming a national model for the development of a sustainable industrial district.'

The article stated, 'The 300-acre site on the Brooklyn waterfront, once a shipbuilding facility, is now a gated industrial park with 40 buildings, three functioning dry docks and four piers to attract creative industries such as media and set design. The city is implementing a $250 million initiative to expand the navy yard with more than 1.5 million square feet of new space.'

The three-story building will get its power from turbines and roof-top solar panels. It will also use reflective roofing and pavement to lower surface temperatures, take advantage of natural ventilation, and other energy-saving techniques.

Energy-saving solar-powered street lights will also be used at the Brooklyn Navy Yard project.

Mayor Bloomberg also unveiled plans for a '60,000-square-foot building at the industrial park that will make environmentally friendly products'.

The article also stated, 'The city will contribute $2 million to a $7 million project by Duggal Visual Solutions, a New York-based photo-imaging company, to convert a one-story, 30,000-square-foot building into two stores. The planned Duggal Greenhouse will be certified as platinum, the highest designation, from the Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system.'

Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life dawning in the world and highlights the need for introducing Natural Law based—Total Knowledge based—programmes to bring the support of Nature to every individual, raise the quality of life of every society, and create a lasting state of world peace.

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